PHL243H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Connotation, Nucleus Accumbens, C. S. Lewis
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A theory of love and sexual desire; vannoy; love as theatre. Summary of last 2 weeks: four approaches to morality and sex. Placed sexuality in four diferent moral contexts: utilitarianism (most common form of consequentialism), natural law theory (aquinas), virtue theory, and deontological approach. People respond in a particularly intense way to sexuality: kantian sex: (a scary business) Today: sex and love: kantian morality without sex phobia. Trying to extract from the deontological perspective something which is more plausible than what kant actually says about sexuality, which is a little insane. How we can take the good things he says about morality and apply it to sexuality. Why one might want to be treated as a means. Despite the fact that there seems to be something clearly right about treating others as ends not means, there might be occasions in which one wants to be treated as means and not as ends.
